Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-315) and index.
Cover; Acknowledgments; Contents; Preface; Part I. The Commercialization of American Network Radio; 1. Ancestors of Radio Advertising; 2. Commercializing the Ether; 3. Ad Agencies: They Held the Whip Hand; 4. Audience Measurement Services: Counting the House; 5. Commercial Copywriters: Persuasive Penmanship; 6. Commercial Spokesmen: They Delivered the Goods; Part II. Patronage of American Network Radio; American Home Products; American Tobacco Company; Andrew Jergens Company; Bristol-Myers Company; Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company; Campbell Soup Company; Coca-Cola Company.
Colgate-Palmolive-Peet CompanyFord Motor Company; General Foods Corporation; General Mills, Inc.; General Motors Company; Kellogg Company; Kraft Foods Company; Lever Brothers Company; Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company; P. Lorillard, Inc.; Miles Laboratories, Inc.; Philip Morris Company; Procter & Gamble Company; Quaker Oats Company; R.J. ReynoldsTobacco Company; Standard Brands, Inc.; Sterling Drug, Inc.; Appendix A: 100 More Advertisers in Radio's Golden Age; Appendix B: Variants That Impacted the Radio Commercial; Appendix C: A Glossary of Advertising and Broadcasting Jargon; Chapter Notes.
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Radio advertising-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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